Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 vs Supermicro BigTwin SYS-221BT-HNTR
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The ThinkSystem SD530 was Lenovo's modular 2U 4-node ultra-dense multi-node server designed for high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise grid clusters, large-scale financial simulation, and cloud service provider scale-out… The Supermicro SYS-221BT-HNTR is a 2U 4-node BigTwin system incorporating 4th and 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
| Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 | Supermicro BigTwin SYS-221BT-HNTR | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Lenovo | Supermicro |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Apr 2023 |
| Form factor | 2U 4-node | 2U 4-node |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) or 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) processors up to 165W TDP per node (8 CPUs per 2U chassis) | — |
| Memory slots | 16 | 64 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 1,024 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays per node (up to 24 drives per 2U D2 chassis) | 24x 2.5-inch hot-swap PCIe 5.0 NVMe (6 per node) |
| Pcie slots | Up to 2 PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1 dedicated LOM slot per node | — |
| Network onboard | Modular LOM slot per node plus shared chassis Scalable Infrastructure Management Controller | — |
| Power supply | Shared redundant 1600W / 2000W AC 80 PLUS Platinum power supplies in D2 chassis | — |
| Form factor | — | 2U 4-node |
| Sockets | — | 8 |
| Processor family | — | Intel Xeon Scalable (4th/5th Gen) |
| Max memory | — | 16TB DDR5-5600 |
| Power supplies | — | 2x 3000W Redundant Titanium |
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